âIn all franknessâ, Alex Winter has now told IndieWire, âitâs just a slow universe. It took us fifteen years to come up with an idea that we thought weâd want to doâ.

In the new interview, he said that âthe script only got finished two months ago and itâs really green. Itâs the beginning of what could be nothing, frankly.â

He added that, âThere's hooplah because frickin' Reeves keeps blathering about it. Every time he's interviewed he talks about it and he's one of my closest friends and I love him dearly but I think he's got a very post-modern sense of humor. I think he's doing it partially just to fuck with people. Because if he says it, everyone goes crazy and I think he just goes 'Muah ha ha'."

"[But] we wrote a script, we like it, we don't really even have the rights. We kinda have the rights. There's a long road of crap we have to deal with before it ever, if it ever, becomes a movie.â

Winter said that if the film didnât get made, heâd put the script for it online. And he also dismissed reports that Werner Herzog was up for directing the film. âHerzog said yes, not knowing anything about it. Jokinglyâ, said Winter. âNo one asked him officiallyâ.